When we hear terms like “100,000 wounded, 20,000 dead, and explosions which render bodies helpless,” automatically we think of terror bombs. According to U.S health reports, the newly aggressive staph infection—methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA (for short) —- undermines the body’s defenses first and then causes germ-fighting cells to explode. With such alarming statistics, bombreport why is no-one telling us the origin of this bacterium, where it originated, how infectious it is, and/or if the bacteria is laboratory-designed? To make bad matters worse, health practitioners are trying to imply that there are two strains, even though the evidence is clouded. From their reports, supposedly there is a milder version that floats around hospitals and health-care facilities only, and a (check this out) more deadly version that lurks around larger communities.

I am not trying to trivialize a serious matter. When you break down the findings, except for location of discovery, what differences do the two supposedly different strains manifest? The first reports pointed to cases in health care facilities, where MRSA attacked people with reduced immune systems; whybitcoinprice however many recent cases involve an aggressive strain, community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA. That type supposedly causes severe infections and even death in otherwise healthy people outside of health care settings.

A team of U.S. and German researchers, led by Michael Otto of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, published some findings in Sunday Nov 4th ‘s online edition of the Journal Nature Medicine. According to their report, the new CA-MRSA strain secretes a compound (called peptides) formed by amino acids, which causes immune cells (neutrophils) to burst—eliminating a main defense against infection—according to researchers. Although only 14-percent of serious MRSA infections are the community-associated kind, in recent months, they have created news headlines with an avalanche of reports in schools, including the death of a 17-year-old Virginia high school student.

ARE THERE REALLY TWO TYPES?

Both hospital-associated and community-associated MRSA contain genes for the peptides, but their production is much higher in the CA-MRSA, ufa168live the researchers said. The compounds first cause inflammation, drawing the immune cells to the site of the infection and then destroying those cells. As I examine all reports, we are told that one well-behaved type, which is allegedly confined to and transferable in controlled health facilities, can be eliminated, reduced, managed, and or minimized by washing hands, wearing disposable gloves and by observing basic hygiene precautions.

LETHAL HANDSHAKES, SNEEZES AND KISSES OF DEATH:

What about the wider and wilder community where the more reckless version lurks? How many people wash their hands regularly? What guarantees do we have that food carriers will not break the chain of command? According to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, NIAID director in their published report, vybecandy all those relevant data are not yet available. Here is his quote “Understanding what makes the infections caused by these new strains so severe, and developing new drugs to treat them are urgent public health priorities.” In other words, we do not know yet if this new bacteria, which has killed approximately 20,000 people so far, can be spread by sneezing or kissing. More alarming is the fact that health-care practitioners are issuing memos to the effect that the milder type can even propagate within their hallowed walls.

THE BIGGER PROBLEM:

If experts are telling us how easy it is to spread in a controlled health-care facility, then what will happen if this bacterium is released intentionally in a controlled space like an airline or a crowded train? Now is the time for us to ask those types of questions and to demand answers. Since playgrounds are so vulnerable, how much more would public transportation become? At this point, chronicleshub please understand that I am not in the business of creating unnecessary panic: all I am asking for is that other writers begin to seek out responsible people for proper analyses.

BLOOD TESTS BEFORE BOARDING FLIGHTS?

It is not inconceivable that in the near future, before we board airplanes we will be asked to submit to a blood test. Why not? If we keep festering antagonism between people from nations who are not afraid of death, it stands to reason that devious minds will be on the hunt for new and undetectable WMD’s.

Since reading that report I have searched far and wide for as much information as possible. It helps that 10 family members work in the medical field. I checked local and regional Departments of Health. Most are posting general advisories to their personnel, informing them that Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is an antibiotic-resistant (check this) hospital-acquired infection that seems to be prevalent in, but not limited to, hospitalized patients. That is supposedly the milder of the two.